About that race-based benediction: “When white will embrace what is right”

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 20, 2009 01:33 PM

Juan Williams got emotional over Rev. Joseph Lowery’s impassioned benediction, and marveled over the former NAACP head’s personal journey from ’60s civil rights leader to Obama benediction leader.

No question, Rev. Lowery has led a remarkable life.

But the benediction’s eloquence was marred by glib racialism.

Lowery got big cheers when he weaved in a weird prayer rap expressing his hope for a future in which the “brown would stick around,” the “yellow would be mellow,” the “red man would get ahead, man,” and the “white would embrace the right.”

The “white would embrace the right?”

Who wrote that line? Jeremiah Wright? And what would Obama’s grandparents and mother have to say?

Like I said last night: Feel the post-racialism!

***

Allah’s got the vid.

The full paragraph:

“We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to give back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right,” Lowery said.

A reader points to this old civil rights chant that adds context to Lowery’s remarks — but makes the jab against whites all the more egregious:

Big Bill Broonzy Black, Brown And White lyrics

This little song that i’m singin’ about,
People you know it’s true
If you’re black and gotta work for a living,
This is what they will say to you,
They says, “if you was white, should be all right,
If you was brown, stick around,
But as you’s black, hmm brother, get back, get back, get back”
I was in a place one night
They was all having fun
They was all buyin’ beer and wine,
But they would not sell me none
They said, “if you was white, should be all right,
If you was brown, stick around,
But if you black, hmm brother, get back, get back, get back”
Me and a man was workin’ side by side
This is what it meant
They was paying him a dollar an hour,
And they was paying me fifty cent
They said, “if you was white, ‘t should be all right,
If you was brown, could stick around,
But as you black, hmm boy, get back, get back, get back”
I went to an employment office,
Got a number ‘n’ i got in line
They called everybody’s number,
But they never did call mine
They said, “if you was white, should be all right,
If you was brown, could stick around,
But as you black, hmm brother, get back, get back, get back”
I hope when sweet victory,
With my plough and hoe
Now i want you to tell me brother,
What you gonna do about the old jim crow?
Now if you was white, should be all right,
If you was brown, could stick around,
But if you black, whoa brother, get back, get back, get back

***
Left-wing blogger dubs Lowery a “rock star.”

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  1. #597547
    On January 20th, 2009 at 3:52 pm, fmfnavydoc said:

    Why do the Donks/Civil Right people still fight the Civil War? Both sides of my family came over to this country after the war! Does that make me guilty of what their ancestors went through during slavery? And, if I recall, weren’t the Donks a proponent of slavery for years, well before the Civil War???

  2. #597548
    On January 20th, 2009 at 3:52 pm, nail49 said:

    RobM1981:

    Is your (#88) post in response to my (#87) post to nyk?

    If so, what are you saying?

    Over…

  3. #597549
    On January 20th, 2009 at 3:53 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    Michelle just doesn’t get it because she is a honkie! Honkies just ain’t down with the struggle.

    If she were a “person of color” who hadn’t had everything handed to her for her whole life she would know what it is to go through life being oppressed by Whitey.

    Honkies don’t get it. That’s just the way it is…

    Welcome to post-racial America

  4. #597553
    On January 20th, 2009 at 3:54 pm, RobM1981 said:

    Maybe Bobby Byrd can dust off his old Grand Wizard outfit and make an appearance at one of the balls? I’m sure that will do the trick.

    100% post racial, of course…

  5. #597554
    On January 20th, 2009 at 3:54 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Bringing America Together.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FnpaWQJO0

  6. #597555
    On January 20th, 2009 at 3:56 pm, Tom Blogical said:

    Check it out. This election was pure racial politics. Do any of you really understand “WHY?”

    Yep. It’s an obviously successful, tried and true brainwashing tactic, and it worked extremely well.

  7. #597560
    On January 20th, 2009 at 3:59 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    I’ve never really seen any Asian people who were yellow. I’d imagine that would be a sign of serious liver disease.

    They seem, like “white people”, to vary from pretty pale to pretty well tanned, depending on ethnicity.

    But it rhymes. For some reason, it can be meaningless, as long as it rhymes.

  8. #597563
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:00 pm, Misscheryl said:

    He needs Jim Crow memories to be stimulated so that he can stay galvanized with a voting block he doesnt understand…but knows how to manipulate.

    Nail…head!

  9. #597564
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:01 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    Channelling Johnny Cochran—If the glove doesn’t fit…

  10. #597574
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:04 pm, thewariscoming said:

    Very simple, folks. White people screwed themselves, big time.

  11. #597576
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:04 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

    As a Christian, who happens to be “white”, I have embraced what is right, the Lord Jesus. When are the leftists going to do the same? And besides, in Christ there is no more red, yellow, black, or white, male, female, Jew, Gentile and all the rest. Why is the left focusing on those labels? Answer: because they aren’t in Christ.

  12. #597578
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:05 pm, nyk said:

    The point is that what Lowry is talking about is LONG over, and Obama knows it.

    No, it isn’t. Our country is not free of racism or prejudice (and yes, people of color can be prejudiced and biased and hate-filled too, before someone here points out the mindnumbingly obvious), and people who say things like that are either willfully ignorant or just plain stupid.

    Lumping all of us together based on our beliefs shows you are just as prejudiced as Rev Lowery.

    No, it just shows I read the comments on this site. Where — for the record — people lump together pretty much anyone who doesn’t agree with them all the time. The gays, the blacks, the Mexicans, the feminists, the educated, the liberal, etc., etc. (the list is incredibly lengthy).

    Just who are you libs planning to retroactively abort?

    It was a joke. I was poking fun at your hysteria and groundless, paranoid delusions about, say, liberals racing out to getting abortions retroactively or aiding Mexicans in crossing the border. How classically humorous of you not to get it.

  13. #597583
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:08 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    What an impressive display of rhyming abilities. Frickin’ genius, that guy.

    So blacks shouldn’t have to give back, but everyone else must? Don’t tell me what to do.

  14. #597588
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:11 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Since we’ve had Dat Nguyen (born in a refugee camp to Vietnamese parents) and Haruki Nakamura (American born of a Japanese immigrant father and a Japanese-American mother) make it in the NFL, I think we can safely say that Asians are fully integrated into the American mainstream.

    Last major ethnic group that was left out. And football is America.

  15. #597595
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:18 pm, bear1909 said:

    Huh?

  16. #597596
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:19 pm, DBNinKY said:

    Where — for the record — people lump together pretty much anyone who doesn’t agree with them all the time.

    NYK, only confident people remain unaffected by what others may say or think. It says more about you, and not necessarily complimentary, that the collective thoughts and comments of those here offend your schema of political ideologies and social truths.

    Your side now has the WH and Congress, so forgive us if we find solace in coming here to commiserate and occasionally pat one another on the back.

  17. #597602
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:24 pm, nail49 said:

    Where — for the record — people lump together pretty much anyone who doesn’t agree with them all the time.

    And you DON’T? You JUST did!

    It was a joke.

    So, is partial-birth abortion a joke?

    How classically humorous of you not to get it.

    How classically unfunny of you to think those who disagree with you are humorless.

  18. #597603
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:25 pm, bear1909 said:

    CHANGE has come to America.

    Wow. In one fell swoop. A narcisstic sychophant as Commander-in-Chief. Sounds like Carter and Clinton to me.

    Pompous Mama’s boy.

    Good gried.

    Bear1909out

  19. #597605
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:26 pm, vickisoup said:

    nail49, I’m sorry, but what???
    :shock:

  20. #597610
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:29 pm, nail49 said:

    vickisoup: I was responding to nyk’s post #102.

    Does that help?

  21. #597612
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:31 pm, nyk said:

    It says more about you, and not necessarily complimentary, that the collective thoughts and comments of those here offend your schema of political ideologies and social truths.

    Oh, the irony. The collective lot of you spend all your time here discussing those that offend you (i.e., those who don’t agree with you). It’s hypocritical for the poster I was addressing to complain of my lumping “all of [you] together based on our beliefs” — when the raison d’etre of this board (and it is used as such by those who comment here) is to provide a forum in which you can grouse endlessly about those who “offend your schema of political ideologies and social truths.” (Which means your own little comment, above, is hypocritical as well.)

    Your side now has the WH and Congress, so forgive us if we find solace in coming here to commiserate and occasionally pat one another on the back.

    Awww…I know. It’s nice to have your own safe space. That’s how I and everyone I know (and almost nearly the entire major metropolitan city I live in) felt for the last eight years.

    It’s a sliver of a solace in a place that is becoming less and less hospitable to your ideals each day. I’ll leave you to enjoy it.

  22. #597615
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm, ThatSamIAm said:

    What I take from the “reverend’s” comments is that the poor black people just have it so hard here in 2009 that we should feel sorry for them. That’s just a sad pathetic way of looking at it.

    And what exactly have the black been asked to give back? Those jobs they get even when they are not the most qualified? Tell me what “black” has given back? They demand a lot but they are not giving back anything but bitterness.

  23. #597617
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:34 pm, bear1909 said:

    The point is that what Lowry is talking about is LONG over, and Obama knows it.
    No, it isn’t. Our country is not free of racism or prejudice (and yes, people of color can be prejudiced and biased and hate-filled too, before someone here points out the mindnumbingly obvious), and people who say things like that are either willfully ignorant or just plain stupid.

    Free of racism? Classic liberal construct. Your very use of it betrays your mindnumbing stupidity about what racism is and how it works.

    Bear1909out

  24. #597618
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:34 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    I can rhyme, too.

    I dream of the day
    When being white is okay,
    When being black
    Doesn’t give you the right to attack,
    When the color of your skin
    Has nothing to do with what’s within,
    When the men in power
    Don’t make the rest of us cower
    Or react in utter rage
    ‘Cause each considers himself a sage.
    Try to make me think I don’t belong
    That everything I do is wrong,
    But I’ll continue to dream
    That we’re truly in this together—a team.

    There, that didn’t take long. I know I could have done much better, but I just wanted to make the point that he could have, too.

  25. #597620
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:35 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

    I’m more than one race, so where do I fit in?

    So much for Dr. Kings dream.

  26. #597621
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:36 pm, tettes said:

    “We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to give back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right,” Lowery said.

    This is absolutely NOT what Lowery said. Replace “black will not be asked to give back” with “black will not be asked to GET back.”

    But I’m pretty sure Michelle knows this and is simply keeping the incorrect quote posted in order to further rile up her followers and subsequently generate more traffic.

  27. #597622
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:36 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    Every honest, non-racist white person should be HORRIFIED that such a remark is even thought ‘acceptable’ let alone spoken at a federal ceremony.

    I’m no racist and I’ve been a good Christian but ‘these people’ are really starting to tick me off!

  28. #597623
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:37 pm, bear1909 said:

    Content of one’s character: was this what got BHo elected?

    Calling Dr. King.

    Bear1909

  29. #597629
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:39 pm, alaskangrizzly said:

    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:36 pm, tettes said:

    What part of this isn’t racist?

    and when white will embrace what is right,” Lowery said.

    Kk, thanks.

  30. #597630
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:42 pm, committed said:

    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:36 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:
    Every honest, non-racist white person should be HORRIFIED that such a remark is even thought ‘acceptable’ let alone spoken at a federal ceremony.

    I’m no racist and I’ve been a good Christian but ‘these people’ are really starting to tick me off!

    Go back and listen. He did say
    “give”

  31. #597631
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:43 pm, rooster said:

    Everything about Obama and everyone around Obama deeply offends me.
    Why has this country ignored the obvious and elected this fraud?

  32. #597632
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:43 pm, committed said:

    Sorry, I quoted off the wrong comment. Sorry, danceswithhounds. I meant to quote tettes.

  33. #597641
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:50 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Why has this country ignored the obvious and elected this fraud?

    Mass hysteria?
    Kool-Aid?
    Campaign finance fraud?
    Media bias?
    Willfull ignorance?

    All of the above?

  34. #597645
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:52 pm, Southpaw said:

    This is absolutely NOT what Lowery said. Replace “black will not be asked to give back” with “black will not be asked to GET back.”

    Was the only part I wasn’t offended by,
    so…

    But I’m pretty sure Michelle knows this and is simply keeping the incorrect quote posted in order to further rile up her followers and subsequently generate more traffic.

    … not applicable.

    Agree with Danceswithdachshunds about really starting to get ticked off.

  35. #597651
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:58 pm, jsr said:

    This is absolutely NOT what Lowery said. Replace “black will not be asked to give back” with “black will not be asked to GET back.”

    Could be. But it doesn’t change the underlying in-your face race baiting of the passage. I don’t know of black people being asked to “get back” but the implication is they are being forced to the back of the bus, back of the line or just back of society. Everytime I watch or read the news I see prominent black politicians, athletes and celebrities performing, speaking, acting, advocating etc… in public and getting plenty of exposure just like everybody else. Just who do you think is asking (or forcing) black people to “get back”? If there is anybody they certainly haven’t been able to implement their nefarious plans.

  36. #597654
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:05 pm, bear1909 said:

    About half the electorate voted for BHo. Nearly 50 million(?) didnt vote for this site gag of a human being.

    Off the teleprompter he is a farce. His inauguration speech was BORING.

    Couldnt quite bring himself to say ISLAMIC terrrorists…instead it was about a “network of terror and violence”.

    Chicken sh*t.

    Oh, but he had the nerve to say that “we” can’t use the majority share of the earth’s resources without consequence.

    Huh? You mean the goatherders need coal and natural gas as much as we do? WTF?!?!??!?!

    And what about your limo, d-Bag?

    Bear1909

    PS: These people dont tick me off as much as they inspire me to get even. ROFLMAO

  37. #597656
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:08 pm, sonofdy said:

    Front page of cnn, A military member saluting obama and of course obama did not salute her back. Welcome back to the clinton days in that way.

  38. #597659
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:09 pm, sbw999 said:

    I tune out all this whining and race baiting. I could care less about what clowns say. If you are able to, and you pull your own weight, I respect you…dont care what color you are. If you live off the public dime when you dont have to…you’re a worthless parasite. I dont care what color you are. Seems like the Dem party is the party of parasites, whatever color they are. That’s the only “truth” to me.

  39. #597661
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:09 pm, hatfield said:

    Frankly, I don’t understand why anyone is surprised by this. Regardless of the wording, I believe it was “get back”, race is till something that blacks will use at every turn.
    Lowery has been a race baiter here in Atlanta many years.

  40. #597662
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:09 pm, localmalcontent said:

    Man, wow. I’ll bet the Rev. Lowery worked on those lines, for several minutes, just to get them to sound right.

    “Gettin’ ahead man…

  41. #597666
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:13 pm, bear1909 said:

    BHo’s narcissistic achilles heel will be very evident with the military elites with whom he is going to be sitting in the sitch room.

    He doesnt have the whiskers and he takes himself so seriously that he will not only get his lunch eaten- they will pull his pants up over his head and spin him out into the hallway.

    BHo is like a thin-skinned substitute teacher in a high school that is tough and unruly. He walks in like he has a plan and by lunch time he is run out. He hasnt even been able to be in Washington DC long enough to be a senator who can dogfight with his peers. And now he is President.

    See ya.

    Bear1909

  42. #597672
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:17 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:08 pm, sonofdy said:
    Front page of cnn, A military member saluting obama and of course obama did not salute her back. Welcome back to the clinton days in that way.

    Not a problem with me, as Obama never served in the military and as President is a civilian. Reagan and the Bushes returned salutes, because they had been service members. They had no need to but did as one service person to another.

    Obama not returning a salute is not a sign of disrespect.

  43. #597681
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:28 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    OT- Don’t know about the other services, but it was in my handy “Blue Jackets Manual”.

    A sailor ordered confined to the brig or other confinement is not permitted to offer the salute, because an officer will return the salute, and a confined sailor is not entitled to receive even a returned salute.

    Sort of OT.

    Oh, and Navy people aren’t covered in doors, except for certain ceremonial occasions, and sailors do not salute uncovered, so sailors do not usually salute indoors.

    And, if one enters the enlisted or petty officers club and forgets to rmeove his cover, he has to buy a round of beer for all present.

  44. #597691
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:35 pm, Marie said:

    co2 producer #114 – I think you should copyright your poem….

  45. #597699
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:38 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    After listening to Lowery again, I will retract part of what I said earlier. Sounds like he probably said “get,” not “give.” I still don’t like being told that I need/have to give back. Generosity shouldn’t be mandated.

  46. #597705
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:41 pm, huggybear said:

    Everything about Obama and everyone around Obama deeply offends me. Why has this country ignored the obvious and elected this fraud?

    The depths of your collective denial about Bush’s unpopularity is quite a spectacle! He left office one of the most disliked presidents since such statistics went on record. Ever since Katrina — long before the debates, the primaries, the election — it was all but guaranteed our next president would be a Democrat.

    The “obvious” here is that what is offensive to you is apparently not so for the majority of Americans, and vice-versa. This is really all you need to know.

  47. #597706
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:41 pm, orlandocajun said:

    Race baiting is a multi-billion dollar business and it’s reserved for blacks. This country is 70% white. Who in the hell does he think elected Obama? Has anyone ever heard one of these guys mention the opportunities that have been given to blacks in this country?

    As long as guilt-ridden whitey continues to fill the coffers, guys like him, Wright, Jackson and Sharpton will earn a good living. The irony is that guys like him are the ones who perpetuate race as an issue and alienate whites, and other ethnic groups, who really want to get past it.

    If Obama didn’t screen what this idiot was going to say on the national stage, then he’s just as culpable. Maybe this makes me a racist, but I hope that I live to see the day when blacks like Lowery and Wright stop whining about what happened in history and start contributing to the future.

  48. #597722
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:54 pm, jamesgreenidge said:

    , I think we can safely say that Asians are fully integrated into the American mainstream.

    As long as Afro-Americans believe that merely being born black is more than a happenstance of genetics but a compulsory membership card into an American quasi-subculture “color club” that only perpetuates its own stereotypes as in speech, political and mono-cultural affinities and attitudes and the need for the specious crutch of “race pride” and “leaders”, the day is long till their true mergence with mainstream America. When I see TV commercials — or worst, TV shows and even networks — that strut street-talking dreadlock wearing black people as “default” examples of Afro-Americans I cringe. No other racial group would tolerate such a massive pigeon-holing of its “members.”

    James Greenidge
    Queens New York

  49. #597723
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:55 pm, bear1909 said:

    The “obvious” here is that what is offensive to you is apparently not so for the majority of Americans, and vice-versa. This is really all you need to know.

    Majority of Americans? This putz didnt have a mandate from voters. Was it 6 or 7 points difference?

    And who cares about popularity of a President? It is a trite and despicable measure of the serious business a President must conduct– with so many unknowns to the public involved.

    When the MSM gives a Presidential candidate and his party a complete pass on one of the worst financial boondoggles in history, isnt it even a remote possibility that the drumbeat of that same MSM shapes perception of a President who was man enough to do the unpopular thing and protect the Country— something the wildly popular Bill Clinton did not do?

    BHo doesnt offend me. I simply disagree vehemently with what he stands for, who he is as a person, who he is as a male (i do not think he has passed any test of manhood in his life), and what he believes in as a liberal socialist with despotic tendencies.

    Not my President. He got elected.

    Bear1909

  50. #597730
    On January 20th, 2009 at 6:01 pm, Marie said:

    ThatSamIAm #24 – you should copyright your poem too!

  51. #597732
    On January 20th, 2009 at 6:01 pm, sonofdy said:

    Guys, the GOP has been voted out of power. Period. There is very little that can be done till 2010. If we try to filibuster judges the nuclear option will be used.

    Its the DNC’s show for now. And there are radicals in control of ever major congressional body and committee. There is now a radical leftist in the white house.

    There will be long and painfull investigations into the bush years. There will be alot of extreme liberal agendas passed. They will blame everything on bush. All we can do is scream loud enough to try, and I mean TRY to be heard even a little bit.

    We have NO effective representation in Washington DC. NONE. This will not change until at least 2010. The only way we will change this is to start now and start hammering back and hammer hard.

    If you don’t like this, tough, because it is what it is. You can crawl up into a ball of misery or you can fight back. The biggest problem we had in 2008 was bush. Bush is GONE. We are not. So get up off of your butts and fight back.

  52. #597735
    On January 20th, 2009 at 6:06 pm, Dave from Flint said:

    Will the hyphen ever vanish?

  53. #597738
    On January 20th, 2009 at 6:08 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    Well I’m leaving the McCain/Palin bumper sticker on my car. If I can find one I’ll supplement it with a 01/21/2013 bumper sticker.

  54. #597739
    On January 20th, 2009 at 6:09 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    Humble thanks, Marie. I thought the spontaneity of it made it sound cliched, but I’m glad you liked it. It’s the nicest compliment I’ve gotten in a while.

  55. #597746
    On January 20th, 2009 at 6:16 pm, rooster said:

    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:41 pm, huggybear said: Ever since Katrina The depths of your collective denial about Bush’s unpopularity is quite a spectacle!

    Katrina? You are obviously an ignorant moron who blindly believes in the msm. Have you ever heard of Ray Nagin? School Bus Ray?
    You are either a racist black voter, or a guilt ridden white liberal who hasn’t got a clue about what the democrap party along with the msm has done to this country. MORON!

  56. #597748
    On January 20th, 2009 at 6:17 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    I’m kinda particular to PKAmmoTroop’s poetry, too. See #64 for an example.

  57. #597784
    On January 20th, 2009 at 6:59 pm, Leatherneck said:

    Something foul just had to be said about the people who really brought change to this country. The White man.

    Thank you would have been much better. Instead, white need to be right. What a butt head!

  58. #597788
    On January 20th, 2009 at 7:04 pm, simcoe said:

    More proof that racial hatred goes right to the top in all facets of the black culture. The black KKK is alive and well.

    So, again, who are the real racists in this nation?

  59. #597793
    On January 20th, 2009 at 7:08 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    (havent read any of the previous comments yet… have a week long lingering cold going on here…)

    The “white would embrace the right?”

    I see nothing wrong with what he was saying. The man is merely exalting the white folks to stay out of the Democratic party and to restore conservatism to its pure state.

    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:28 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    And, if one enters the enlisted or petty officers club and forgets to remove his cover, he has to buy a round of beer for all present.

    Forgets? Thats not very likely. (Especially west coast squids) I havent known a sailor who ever likes to wear his cover. Its kind of like being caught outdoors when colors are raised in the morning…

  60. #597802
    On January 20th, 2009 at 7:14 pm, farmgal said:

    I wouldn’t keep a McCain/Palin bumper sticker on my car even if I had one.Did you see the love fest between McCain and Obama? With McCain pledging to help Obama pass legislation? Rush said they need the 60 votes and McCain will be their 60.Many of us wondered if there wasn’t some kind of deal under the table for McCain to throw the election.Cosidering the way he and his staff treating Palin like garbage after he lost and were all lovey to Obama I wonder.

  61. #597810
    On January 20th, 2009 at 7:20 pm, Marie said:

    CO2 Producer #144 – I have already copied your poem and sent it off to five friends. And yes, I gave you credit from Michelle’s blog.

  62. #597813
    On January 20th, 2009 at 7:25 pm, Marie said:

    Ditto to Farmgal #150… Never thought I would have to get a RINO detector. Bummer.

  63. #597814
    On January 20th, 2009 at 7:26 pm, Stubby said:

    I realize that electing a President who happens to be black is noteworthy and of great historical significance. However, he is not the “usual” black that I encounter in my daily life. He speaks perfect English, has a great education, is married and living with the mother of his children, dresses in socially acceptable clothing, doesn’t wear a baseball cap tilted in the wrong direction, and looks you in the eye when he speaks.

    HIs blackness is not the big thing as all the cheering crowds of blacks profess. It boils down to command of the language, education, and character. Maybe blacks will get the point rather than jump up and down gleefully simply because he is black, half black that is.

  64. #597816
    On January 20th, 2009 at 7:27 pm, stayathomemom said:

    When is the real vision of Martin Luther King ever going to be lived? That we would not judge on color but on character?? What does it take?? We have just elected the first black president and these “civil rights leaders” are still stuck in the past. Its just unreal. I’m not sure they will ever want to get past “racial divides”… its too big of a business for these “civil rights” leaders that make a living by dividing us, not uniting us. God help us.

  65. #597817
    On January 20th, 2009 at 7:27 pm, Kokonut said:

    Ok, please, check this one out. It’s really funny and ironic. Which one is he more like? Pericles or Semos?

  66. #597826
    On January 20th, 2009 at 7:45 pm, Dedlock said:

    I’m damned offended, and I know, being a white male, that I’ve got a hell of a lot of nerve being so. But today’s racial slur from noted civil rights activist Reverend Lowery made me apoplectic. In his sophomoric, racist poem, wherein he wished, “. . . white people will do what is right,” the man delivered a monumental, unwarranted, and egregious insult to all Americans. In particular, I’m thinking of the 600,000 men, mostly white, who died in the great Civil War so that the good Reverend could get up at the podium today and heap scorn on those of us not yet persuaded that we’re all guilty wretches. Consider Chris Mathews, of the Obama cable network, who said today, while apparently overcome by the rhetoric of the One that. . . “This is not partisan, but there is JFK and FDR and maybe, Barrack Obama.” Not partisan? Chris, who gets “shivers running up and down his legs” from listening to the Anointed, not partisan? I’ll retire to Bedlam.

  67. #597831
    On January 20th, 2009 at 7:54 pm, chapoutier said:

    Thought I’d give a shot at the poem thingy.

    There once was a Muslim from Chi-Town,
    Self-ordained king, though wearing no crown.
    Grabbed sonofdy’s gats,
    And raised soap-box’s tax,
    And brought the economy way down.

  68. #597833
    On January 20th, 2009 at 7:56 pm, Marc said:

    The MSM has gone loony about Rick Warren but the same MSM has covered up Joseph Lowery’s history of antisemitism and his embrace of terrorists like Qadafi. In case anyone only watches the MSM, you might not know that Lowery in 1979 traveled to Lybia where he proudly presented Qadafi with the “Martin Luther King Medal of Freedom”. When Qadafi only a few years later arranged the bombing of a disco in Berlin and killed an African-American soldier who was there, Lowery had nothing to say. Qadafi was and is Lowery’s idol. Lowery also traveled to Lebanon where he and Walter Fauntroy called for the US to have an arms embargo against Israel. Lowery was so fanatically antiIsrael that Lowery actually accused Jimmy Carter of being a slave to “The Jewish Lobby”. Lowery commented that he thought Jews had too much influence in America. All of these quotes and photos are readily available but of course CNN would not ever mention any of it. CNN never tires of chastising Rick Warren, who is about the most decent man anyone could ever meet. But not a peep from Rick Sanchez or Christine Amanpour about Lowery’s antiSemitism.

  69. #597850
    On January 20th, 2009 at 8:19 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    Two wows:

    Wow, Marie, you’re too kind. Give me a chance to polish the thing up, at least!

    and

    Wow, chapoutier, what’s come over you? Your Jedi mind tricks won’t work on me!

  70. #597859
    On January 20th, 2009 at 8:35 pm, chapoutier said:

    Wow, chapoutier, what’s come over you? Your Jedi mind tricks won’t work on me!

    Ohhhh…they will work…they WILL work…

    Obama is officially Prez.
    With lotsa help from Ayers and Rez.
    He got on the horn
    With folks from ACORN
    And said “I’m black so do what I sez.”

  71. #597872
    On January 20th, 2009 at 8:44 pm, Marie said:

    Neighborhood ball looks like a ball! BIG talent singing “Signed Sealed and Delivered”.

  72. #597874
    On January 20th, 2009 at 8:45 pm, Marie said:

    Barack doing rump-bumps with the peons..

  73. #597875
    On January 20th, 2009 at 8:47 pm, CantCureStupid said:

    Wow, Chap… whatcha drinkin? I could use a cocktail myself. :)

  74. #597878
    On January 20th, 2009 at 8:50 pm, Marie said:

    Chapoutier is a brand of wine so chap is a wino!

  75. #597880
    On January 20th, 2009 at 8:54 pm, Chief RZ said:

    What is right is: Following laws, mores, customs, rules and the work ethic. Many things that those who talk are not accustomed to.

  76. #597881
    On January 20th, 2009 at 8:55 pm, Marie said:

    CO2 Producer #159 – leave it a lone – it’s just the way it should be…

  77. #597884
    On January 20th, 2009 at 8:56 pm, yohannbiimu said:

    Joseph Lowery is a bitterly hateful old man who listens to and does what his spiritual father tells him to do–the same who fathered the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Michael Pfleger, Fred Phelps, and the multitudes of Islamic imams who preach death to America.

    The Spirit of God does not dwell in him, and as such he should be pitied.

  78. #597885
    On January 20th, 2009 at 8:57 pm, Marie said:

    Okay, the “homies” are doing rap crap now… Blah…..Blah……Blah…OOOO…BAAAMMM…AAAA

  79. #597889
    On January 20th, 2009 at 9:14 pm, chapoutier said:

    Wow, Chap… whatcha drinkin? I could use a cocktail myself.

    I call it a chapoutini.

    Take one part vodka and mix it with three parts vodka, add a splash of vodka and serve over ice with a wedge of hope and change.

  80. #597892
    On January 20th, 2009 at 9:16 pm, luckydogg said:

    BAYROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    WHERE’S MY CHECK!!!!!!!!!

  81. #597898
    On January 20th, 2009 at 9:26 pm, frontierguy said:

    “Where white people will do what is right…” That means that he wants all white people to be moronic liberals. He wants all white Americans to be a$$ kissers of non-whites. Demand that all non-whites get away with crimes, don’t have to be productive and are fully justified in their “freedom” to actively pursue the destruction of this country from the inside. That is exactly what he means.

  82. #597901
    On January 20th, 2009 at 9:31 pm, Marie said:

    Dana Delaney just said she was looking forward to the new administration seeing to all women across the world will have access to abortion! What a great sentiment…. FOX News interview of stars.

  83. #597903
    On January 20th, 2009 at 9:31 pm, crashemt said:

    On January 20th, 2009 at 9:14 pm, chapoutier said:

    I call it a chapoutini.

    Take one part vodka and mix it with three parts vodka, add a splash of vodka and serve over ice with a wedge of hope and change.

    Where exactly did you find Hammer and Sickle shaped wedges? The Obamessiah definitely giveth.

    In an ironic note, when I woke up this morning, the Gary Cooper blockbuster “The Fountainhead” (yes, of Ayn Rand fame) was on AMC. How fitting to watch a movie about the evils of the collective, and the true spirit of the individual, on the day when America’s greatest Socialist president and Congress shared center stage.

    Enjoy your vodka, Chap. If Obama is a true commie, the “people’s religion” will soon be as good as the stuff you can pick up in Russia. I recommend Nemiroff, if you can get you hand on it. Smooth, and absolutely no flavor.

  84. #597906
    On January 20th, 2009 at 9:33 pm, flutejpl said:

    I had to say a prayer myself while he prayed these things. I had to pray to God to forgive me for what I was wanting to do to this race-baiting oaf. I had to pray again when the crowd cheered.

    If anything is good in the world, the wheels on Pres. Obama’s bus will go thump, thump, thump in 5, 4, 3, 2…

  85. #597908
    On January 20th, 2009 at 9:36 pm, flutejpl said:

    Just to clarify my comment #173… I’d never ever want to make a threat or carry out a violent action. I was pretty honked off at what I’d heard, though.

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